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What does defragmentation mean?

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Noun
  1. (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
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Most Ubuntu systems use the ext3 file system, which does not need regular defragmentation like a Windows system does.
Use 27 defragmentation strategies to defragment FAT and NTFS file systems and MFT via built-in Total Defrag.
It is also by far the quickest defragmentation engine I have come across.
For example,Windows 7 optimises the hard drive using Prefetch and Superfetch, and does some automatic defragmentation.
Our first test involved setting up a daily defragmentation scheduled on a workstation used daily by six different people for spot editing of research documents.
The utilities for defragmentation of the data are available in the operating system.

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